Mississippi lexicon

[PBRME]

MS ain't as bad a place to live as you've heard.

 

[Tin Cup Cowboy]

Tote'sum: Let's go to the tote'sum and get a pack of nabs and a coke.

Tump: Damn, on the way back from the tote'sum I tumped my coke over in the truck.

Tump can also be used as: He tried to sit down, but he tumped his chair over.

 

[GTAdawg]

Yonder and Yea

Example: "I saw a deer over yonder and he was about yea tall."

 

[Maroonthirteen]

How about, "Jo Jo potatoe" referring to what they call potatoe logs or potatoe wedges everywhere else.

It is what they called them around Columbus back in the day. Also I have not seen stores anywhere else refer to Budweiser as the "king of brew". Another Columbus gem.

 

[RocketDawg]

"blowed" for blew or blown. Saw that here yesterday posted by a Bear, so it has to be sophisticated. I'll have to practice saying it ....

 

[colodawg]

crick/creek

I actually never in 64 years heard a Mississippian say "crik". When I retired and moved to Colorado - where everyone loves to hear my wife and me talk and make fun of our accents - I hear "crik" all the time by the natives in the Centennial State.

Crick vs Creek

 

[BogeyGolfer.sixpack]

How about, "Jo Jo potatoe" referring to what they call potatoe logs or potatoe wedges everywhere else.

It is what they called them around Columbus back in the day. Also I have not seen stores anywhere else refer to Budweiser as the "king of brew". Another Columbus gem.

I remember " Jo Jo" as a kid from Jr Food Mart in Chickasaw County.. Also, I believe there used to be a "Pack a Poke" store in Houston... I had no idea poke was referred to as a bag by old timers.

 

[GratefulDawg.sixpack]

Nigh-uh-laters = Now And Laters

We also called them Annihilaters. I thought they were called this because they blew up your mouth with the tartness.

Chester Droors = chest of drawers

Caw-fee = coffee Don't get me started with the New York coi-fee that I hear all the time.

 

[Indndawg]

A few local-isms:
1) Dest=Desk
2) Dist=Disk
3) Li-berry=Library
4) Imput=Input
5) Lie-kat=Like That

 

[1reddog]

youngins=kids

 

[treeddeep]

Settin= sitting

 

[Hump4Hoops]

Potato*

 

[99dawg]

We'll be out yonder, dreckly.

"dreckly" = directly = later

 

[Digging dog]

Dad would always say something was "shinning like a diamond in a goats ***". Never heard this before until gas monkey garage.

 

[Old Fart Dawg]

helment. chimley. ain't and unca --like ain't mary and unca bob

 

[jumpdawg]

Mash a button

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

"How's yer Famili' deering?"

 

[Double Dawg]

Grabaholtoit

My mom uses this one, and she grew up out West Capital Street about 2 or 3 miles from downtown Jackson.

My grandfather, a sharecropper from Yazoo County who quit school in 3rd grade, talked a lot about scanlers (I figured out he meant scoundrels) & bastids.

Also heard about "shittin' like a tied coon" & how it was "rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock." My dad still uses these.